q-matic is 20-year-old technology. it is really unfortunate that here, next to the silicon valley, we are so invested in a system that is 20 years old technology. there are systems that are vastly better available today. we are now sort of stock because we have spent so much money on it. i am sympathetic to the issues of cost. housing is very expensive in san francisco, and this is adding to the expense for renters and homeowners, and i do not like that one bit. throwing that money after worse is not a solution. i think that we need to put a time limit on this issue and move on it. decide whether we can fix it, as commissioner walker said, to come up with a parallel system, or put a time limit on a by which we are going to get rid of it. >> first of all, thank you for all of the commissioner meetings, commissioners to appoint me as the acting director. you know, we are trying to work on this system. we paid $160,000, not including our manpower, all of those things into the system. right now, we have too many resources

i would come ask this commission to put q-matic on hold until the i am planning can confirm if q- matic will ever be applicable to this department. lastly, whenever you go to the dmv to get your license renewed, it is faster than you can get through q-matic, and something is seriously wrong. >> thank you. is there any more public comment? ok, thank you, everybody, for your comments. commissioners? commissioner walker. >> i really appreciate people coming in to talk about this. i know when we initiated this many years ago, several directors ago, had reasons for it, primarily, to provide consistency, deal with accusations of favoritism, shopping for plan checkers, etc. i know as long as i have been on this commission, my goal is to create a department that provides excellent customer service to everybody walking in the door. everybody equally. it sounds like this program is problematic. one of the things that is going to be a problem that may not be insurmountable is if we cannot deal with this serial vs. parallel issue of thing going through the system. if we cannot do that, it will be d

seeing none, item number four, a discussion regarding q-matic. with regard to have staff with any discussion and then public comment. >> good morning, commissioners, president mccarthy. i am here to speak about the q- matic system to get your progress report of the current status. as you can see, there are many people, more so than normal. i believe most of them are here to address it. i will try to keep my comments somewhat brief so we can hear public comment. i have taken all of the written comments provided by the customers and read all of them to see what the stakeholders bank. there was 56 commons pertaining to this that are retrieved, and the comments that were filled out by people who used the system. 53 comments were against and favor some sort of change, whether it is to go back to the clipboard method, or to somehow reengineer the system to be more user-friendly. just three people were in support of q-matic in the current form. four times sake i went through the 56 comments and a brief notes, figured out the gist of the complaints, and

i personally have had no good experience with q-matic. monday i had to go in and have a question, and i was waiting at the line for 20 minutes. as the pd sweeney pointed out, using a wood fire, you want to go there and get them to sign off, but yet to wait and go through the process. if anything, it has made it completely less efficient. the queue. >>ank you. >> my name is set reth brookshi. if anything, i think the system has improved a little bit by little bit. rather than look of the specifics of what does not work, i would rather zoom out and look of the big picture and say square peg, round hole. i think the system is designed to herd cattle. no one is cattle. we're all professionals on both sides of the aisle. we have learned to work together, and sometimes that is difficult, sometimes easy. with the complexity to try to get us to move and move through the system following the robotic voice does not work. i think that while the clipboard may seem

in regards to the system and q- matic system, this is a new system. as my wife always says to me -- i watched commission meetings as if they are soap operas. sad but true. the q-matic system was almost a headline for years at this commission and it was the same conversation. i did not save a lot of dialogue about problem-solving until it arrives at our doorstep. and i do not know if you could have. everybody wants to the right thing. what concerns me is, as the commission, we have to do the right thing. it would be responsible for us to ignore what is happening out there. a lot of money was spent on this, and especially in these times, we need to be responsible for every penny that we spend, but at the same time, if we recognize that something is going to fall off the cliff, it would be irresponsible for us to at least not put a hold on this. i like would you say, commissioner walker, about the parallel system. i hope this money is not a waste, but maybe is more of a dumbed down system, doing simple, over the counter in needed permits. i do not know t

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>> 8e, update on q-matic and status of the book -- activation. >> i know lots of people do not like it, but starting june 11, we start the project. it is chaotic because our staff is working hard, and chilly. everybody is working hard. i asked our chief building inspector -- i told them that they had better go for lunch. even myself, i have no lunch hour. the customers are so smart. some of these people jam up the system. so many numbers, the system cannot catch up with it. the director was there looking at it. but right away the next day, we do not let them have the kiosk. as was mentioned in the open, they are limited in operation because they have everything operating in one floor. we have multiple floors. the customer may be confused. then our staff. you know, we need to go by the order. also, the number 100, like 110, due to your different station -- by clean up my station first, and then maybe i'd jump before you. that is what it may not be in order to serve. then we file lots of issues with the program, too. over 1 hours 4 minute 4 seconds, then you go to the next station. we tr

the items here also speak about the chromaq-matic system, whichi have experienced for the first time. since doing my masters at berkeley, i've been very interested in commuter systems the maximize something, but usually for the benefit of saving money, time, and making the overall system work better for anybody in it. if planes were scheduled according to this system, people would be up in the air running out of gas all over the country, because basically to take a global perspective, what it does is to say to go into the system where you might have seven or eight stations that you have to stop at, and each one you have to wait the longest time. whereas, if you know how the various stations work and know there is no one at fire at 8:00, you go in there and get in line of structural engineering plan check, and then there are five people waiting there, but you know it will not take that long to check with fire. so you go over and get that one done, because there is the fire checker sitting there and nothing he is doing. so his time is being wasted while you were over there and the line

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twenty nuclear facilities after the fukushima disaster so the global ten percent reduction is not dr matic also remember that some countries have old power plants and in the coming ten to fifteen years they will need to take them out of production to maintain the nuclear share in the energy balance by twenty thirty they will need to build some three hundred twenty to three hundred fifty reactor units experts say this is a really ambitious plan in fact we expected the markets to shrink by fifty percent last year assuming that as market leaders we would experience a thirty percent downturn but in reality our contracts have doubled college is like . if it effects it doesn't mean that the ten percent decrease actually plays into russia's hands just as i did and you know i wouldn't put it that way i decline in market never fares well for anybody as it increases competition it is tougher requirements that have played into our hands rather than the ten percent decrease over the last year people have figured out for themselves what happened at fukushima and they realised that there is no irreparab

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and is he imapply matic when it comes to candidates? >> barkley? >> yes. >> so much money is coming from financial organizations and individuals representing in particular again on the conservative side and of course barkley's is embroiled in a scandal and on other banking scandal. we've seen some uncomfortable connection relationship to those who have the money to give -- and also have are giving a good reason to want to develop a more coordral relationship with the candidate, that will most benefit their economic interest. >> give us a call or send us an e-mail. you can join the conversation online on our twitter page and facebook, twitter.com/c-spanwj or facebook.com/c-span. >> mitt romney with a series of fundraisers. everything legal? >> legal because they're raising the money from ex-pats. from americans abroad. this has been done in prior cycles as well. it is unusual. it's a little bit uncomfortable to be raising funds for american elections on foreign soil. but each of these donations if they're more than $200 must be item miesed so we can

emblem matic of something bigger not just about terrorism? >> accountability is exactly right.y do not want to be accountable for anything. they are not accountable. that's why all the problems we see there stem from the fact, a, it is an opaque organization despite the fact it should be the most free and open because made up of all countries in the world and there is absolutely no accountability. you put those two things together, you get the insanity of the united nations. jenna: at the beginning of the documentary you make it very clear, this organization provided vaccinations for tens of thousands of people, has fed the hungry. gone into war zones where no one else wants to be. so as you're making this documentary, does the good outweigh some of the bad you found? >> in my view, no. i think the good is great. i think they should continue doing that but their core mission is really security, global security. and you know, we're better off as a society in almost every measurable way in terms of, access to food and to medicine and poverty rates but when it comes to the securit

. >> is this an opportunity for the romney campaign, thinking, you know, prog matically? i have to say maybe my viewpoint is so skewed i don't see it because i mean romney was making it a signature speech, big banner in the background and going on and on about it. am i missing something politically? >> regrettably, this is a huge dimension of current american politics, where the gotyou moment, one statement taken out of context from 50 or 100 other sentences in the statement may come across as appearing callous and sensitive and for that matter, not caring or consider ate about the economic concerns of certain class of people in the country. i can't wait for the conversation to be elevated. looks like we're getting there and getting a little closer, at least they're talking about the future of the country and what we have to do in order to make it better. but this little episode here, i blame the press a little bit for focusing a little too much on it as well. but both campaigns are guilty of this petty, small-minded politics. >> i agree with john, too, it's incumbent on